A mentally ill man charged with fatally choking and then stabbing his mother in their Polk Township home will head to Monroe County Court.

At the end of a Monday preliminary hearing, a district court judge found the prosecution had presented sufficient evidence to send a criminal homicide charge against Christopher Strachn, 21, to county court in the June 13 death of his mother, Adrienne Strachn.

Early on the morning of June 13, Christopher Strachn called 911 and said he had choked his mother in their Creek Drive home in Pleasant Valley Estates and that he believed she was dead. Police arrived and found Adrienne Strachn dead on the kitchen floor with blood under her body and a broken knife nearby.

Police said Christopher Strachn admitted to choking and then stabbing his mother and having thought about killing her and other family members for some time. He and his mother were home alone at the time of the murder.